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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyXenosauridae
  5. ›genusXenosaurus
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Pena's Knob-scaled Lizard

Xenosaurus penai Pérez Ramos, De La Riva & Campbell, 2000

Also calledXenosauro de Peña (spa) · lagartija escamas de perilla de la Sierra Madre del Sur (spa)

First described in: Pérez Ramos, Edmundo; Lucia Saldaña De La Riva; Jonathan A. Campbell. A new allopatric species of Xenosaurus (Squamata: Xenosauridae) from Guerrero, Mexico.

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2448227.